The examination of Richard Thomas concerning the theft of sugar
From the Rolls of the Montgomeryshire Quarter Sessions
For the Epiphany Session 1830:
Montgomeryshire, The Voluntary examination of Richard Thomas of Newtown taken before me George Arthur Evors Clerk one of his
Majestys Justices of the Peace in and for the said County the 10th day of November 1829
Who saith that about a month ago I and Owen Parry and Edward Edwards were sleeping one night in Edwards the Tinmans Tallant and we got up about four oclock next morning and went for a Hook belonging to John Turner and then went to David Davies's warehouse and drew the staple out
of the door, opened the door and went in the warehouse and each of us took a quantity of Brown Sugar out of a Cask and carried it away and
returned to Edward's Tallant where we eat part of it and left the remainder in the hay, taped up in a piece of an old shirt, and the next night we
finished eating it.
Who saith that about a month ago I and Owen Parry and Edward Edwards were sleeping one night in Edwards the Tinmans Tallant and we got up about four oclock next morning and went for a Hook belonging to John Turner and then went to David Davies's warehouse and drew the staple out
of the door, opened the door and went in the warehouse and each of us took a quantity of Brown Sugar out of a Cask and carried it away and
returned to Edward's Tallant where we eat part of it and left the remainder in the hay, taped up in a piece of an old shirt, and the next night we
finished eating it.
